Word: dicks
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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...Bush had become bear in chief. For weeks he?s been warning that the U.S. economy is in for hard times. He may steer clear himself of the term recession. ?Possible slowdown? is one way he puts it. But dirty work is what Vice Presidents are for. So Dick Cheney has been sent out to say the forbidden word. As early as Dec. 3, he was on Meet the Press warning that the nation ?may well be on the front edge of a recession...
...divided Congress. And the pieces that are easiest to pass, like an end to the marriage penalty for joint filers, are too small to do much to stimulate consumer spending. Democrats have accepted the inevitability of some kind of tax reduction?s passing Congress this year. House minority leader Dick Gephardt has already said so. But none of them is prepared to support cuts of the size that Bush is looking for. Meanwhile, they are casting around among smaller-scale ideas...
...been a tough job to fill, what with Dick Cheney and Colin Powell looming over the foreign-policy team. Former Indiana Senator Dan Coats, the early favorite, was thought to be either unwilling or unable to deal with the two heavyweights as equals. Tom Ridge was too moderate. And the nominee himself had been the leading contender for CIA director, not top man at the Pentagon...
...much sway will Powell and Cheney have over this guy when it comes to military policy? "Little," Bush replied. "Colin Powell is a strong figure and Dick Cheney is no shrinking violet. But neither is Don Rumsfeld." Nor should confirmation be a problem - it's not as if he lacks for a resume...
...Clinton Legacy: Micromanaging attempts to bring peace to an intractable conflict has proved at best deeply frustrating, and at worst may have exacerbated the conflict. Dick Cheney is on solid ground when he suggests President Clinton may have been pushing too hard at last August's Camp David talks, the failure of which set the fire of the current intifada...